What do people usually eat on Thanksgiving Day?

Introduction: Thanksgiving Day is one of the traditional festivals in western countries, especially popular in China. However, we are very popular in sending Thanksgiving greetings to relatives and friends. In western countries, there are many Thanksgiving activities, and Thanksgiving dinner is even more indispensable. So what should we eat for Thanksgiving? What do people usually eat on Thanksgiving Day? Come and get to know me.

Turkey 1

Eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day is the most famous, and turkey is the traditional main course of American Emotional Festival. The process of making turkey is complicated. In addition to filling the belly with pre-prepared stuffing, the turkey has to be roasted for at least four hours. Turkey is tender, with protein content above 30%. Most Americans like turkeys.

There is also a certain emphasis on how to eat turkey. It needs to be roasted whole, the chicken skin is roasted to dark brown, and its stomach is stuffed with a lot of miscellaneous food such as broken bread. After serving, the host cut it with a knife and distributed it to everyone. Then everyone poured marinade and sprinkled with salt, which was very delicious.

2, cranberry sauce

Cranberry sauce, also known as cranberry sauce, has always been the ingredient and condiment of turkey, the main dish of Thanksgiving and Christmas. According to the United States Pharmacopoeia, cranberry has been used as an adjuvant against cystitis and urinary tract infection, and its remarkable curative effect has been widely recognized. According to Chinese Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, cranberry leaves are "bitter in taste, mild in nature and slightly toxic", which can induce diuresis and detoxify, and are often used for rheumatism and gout. Its fruit can "relieve pain and treat dysentery". What makes people sit up and take notice is that cranberry is listed as one of the five healthy foods for human beings by FAO because of its high economic value, medicinal potential and development prospect.

3.pumpkin pie

What to eat for Thanksgiving? Pumpkin pie is an essential food for this occasion. Pumpkin is a symbol of harvest and abundance, and it is very auspicious in Huang Chengcheng.

Pumpkin is rich in carotene and vitamin C, which can strengthen the spleen, prevent gastritis, prevent night blindness, protect the liver, make the skin tender and neutralize carcinogens. Yellow fruits and vegetables are also rich in two vitamins A and D; Vitamin A can protect gastrointestinal mucosa and prevent gastritis, gastric ulcer and other diseases. Vitamin D can promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, thus strengthening bones and muscles, and has a certain preventive effect on common diseases such as rickets in children, myopia in adolescents and osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people.

4. Sweet potato puree

In the United States, mashed potatoes are also an indispensable food for Thanksgiving. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other ancient documents, sweet potato "tonifies deficiency and benefits qi, strengthens spleen and stomach, strengthens kidney yin" and "has a long life and fewer diseases". "Chinese Materia Medica" says that it is "sweet in taste and flat in nature, belonging to the spleen and kidney meridian", "tonifying the middle warmer, promoting blood circulation, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, widening the stomach and relaxing the bowels". In the best healthy food recently selected by WHO, sweet potato was rated as one of the best vegetables in 13.

5. Indian pudding

Besides turkey and pumpkin pie, Indian pudding made of corn flour is the most common traditional food for Thanksgiving. Indian pudding has nothing to do with Indians, just because this dessert is made of corn flour that Indians like. Indian pudding is an essential dessert for Thanksgiving and Christmas, which was very popular during the early British immigrants to the United States.

6.cider

There are many delicious traditional foods on Thanksgiving Day. It's perfect to have a drink after a big meal. Cider is one of the indispensable foods for Thanksgiving in America. The alcohol content of cider is low, about 2%-8.5%. Apple mainly contains fructose, with fresh aroma and slight apple flavor. The taste is slightly sweet and slightly acidic, and the fruity taste is strong or light.

7. Corn bread

Corn bread is a delicious American snack and an indispensable food for Thanksgiving. The English name is "bread", which is actually more like a coarse grain cake. Soup and vegetables are the staple foods in the southern United States, and the taste is light and single. In the northern United States, it is a kind of cake, sweet and salty, mixed with different ingredients, more like a snack.

8. White wine

Wine is a very popular product on Thanksgiving Day. Because there will be a lot of food on this day, and with food, of course, wine is indispensable. On Thanksgiving Day, there are many kinds of white wine to accompany meals. This will have multiple choices such as crisp, fresh and light. It is a delicious choice to use white wine with seafood, poultry and pork on Thanksgiving Day.

9. Fruit

The layout of the Thanksgiving table is also very distinctive. Housewives don't put flowers as usual, but fruits and vegetables. There is often a big pumpkin in the middle, and some apples, corn and dried fruits are piled around. Sometimes, people empty apples or pumpkins, put dried fruits with shells in them or light candles. Apples, oranges, chestnuts, walnuts and grapes can all be eaten at the table.

10, mashed potatoes

Sweet potato is also a traditional food on the Thanksgiving table. It is rich in vitamins, minerals, high-quality starch and lignin, and is called the "second bread" of human beings. Its vitamin content is twice that of carrots, three times that of Chinese cabbage and four times that of tomatoes, and its vitamin C content is the highest among vegetables. According to the statistics of the United States Department of Agriculture, Americans consume 125 pounds of potatoes every year on average, which is equivalent to eliminating a medium-sized potato in one day, and it is the most consumed vegetable in the United States.

1 1, apple pie

When it comes to Thanksgiving food, many people think of roast turkey stuffed with ingredients, but besides turkey, we can't ignore another Thanksgiving food-apple pie. Apple pie has various shapes, sizes and tastes, including freestyle, standard double apple pie, caramel apple pie, French apple pie, bread crumb apple pie, sour cream apple pie, and so on.

Apple pie is used on many occasions except Thanksgiving. In winter, in front of the heater, eat an apple pie, cover it with a layer of apple meat, add caramel, cinnamon and other fillings, and bite it off. Apple, caramel and cinnamon are intertwined and linger in your mouth.

12, venison

The Indians brought five deer. Historians have determined that two kinds of food appeared on the first Thanksgiving menu-venison and wild birds. The autumn of 162 1 is the first Thanksgiving held in Plymouth Colony. They invited their benefactor, the Indian Wapano tribe, to dinner, the Indians brought venison barbecue, and the Puritans provided turkey and other game.

Thanksgiving introduction

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday in the United States and Canada. It was originally created by the American people to thank God for his bumper harvest and the help of Indians. In the United States, Thanksgiving Day falls on the fourth Thursday of June 1 1 because of194/,and there will be a two-day holiday from this day. But the time of Thanksgiving in Canada and the United States is different, and it is the second Monday of 10.

Just like the Spring Festival in China, on this day, thousands of people, no matter how busy, have to reunite with their families. Thanksgiving in Canada begins on 1879 and falls on the second Monday of June 10 every year, which is the same as Columbus Day in the United States.